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Slice Your Spending in Half

The First Super Saving Secret: Save $310 on a new mattress

When it comes to a good night's sleep, you don't want to be searching around for bargain mattresses. So expect to spend about $800 for a quality queen-size mattress.

The best place to buy? Hit the mattress specialty store or a department store where you can do a test rest. They'll typically give you the best return and exchange policy -- and you'll get the most wiggle room for negotiating price. Don't think brands like Tempurpedic or Select Comfort won't deal -- they will. Prices are extremely fluid -- though retailers would rather keep that under wraps. Always be sure to ask when the next sale is scheduled and if you can get a discount for buying multiple beds.

The Second Super Saving Secret: Slash Your Grocery Bill by Up to 60% or $120 per week!

A grocery store cashier once looked at me and said, "If we didn't have to buy groceries, we'd all be rich." It's so true. But you can slice that bill way down and be on the road to riches.

You don't have to make a detailed shopping list or clip coupons to cut costs significantly. Just remember these simple rules:

  1. Good way to save: You can save as much as 50% by choosing no-name brands. ShopSmart found that all of the 65 store-label products it tested were at least as good as the brand-name grub.

  2. Better Way to Cut Costs: Stick with the conventional, non-organic (a.k.a. "cheaper") varieties of bananas, avocados, asparagus, and cauliflower, which have fewer pesticides than other fresh products. (And because testing on seafood isn't standardized, you can skip the organic fish, too.)

    For apples, nectarines, peaches, pears, tomatoes, spinach, strawberries, baby food, meat, and chicken, the organic versions are usually worth the higher price tags.

  3. Best Way to SAVE: Watch the waste. The average household spends about $3,300 on groceries (it's closer to $5,000 annually for families), and we toss 14% of what we buy. Use a list to shop for necessities to avoid throwing $38.50 down the disposal each month -- that's $462 a year! (Families waste an average of $58.30 a month, or $699.60 annually.)

      5.    For You Women Who Love to Shop.  Try the sale racks at all clothing stores and the mall.  You will be

          surprised to find items you will love.  Or for you that dont mind second hand stores. 

 

     Christmas shopping,  try to limit yourself,  if you cant find a gift maybe you can cook, bake, sometimes the custom or home made gift is the most remembered.  Gift card like visa card I know kids these days love that.

 

Have fun shopping!!

 

6 Comments on Slice Your Spending in Half

My wife already subscribes to most of these principals!  They do work.  Now to get twice the income for the same amount of work and we'll really be ahead! ;-)

12/03/2007 01:38 PM by Matthew Rosov, Certified Mortgage Planning Specialist (Amerisave Mortgage Corporation)


Can you call my wife and talk to her about these?  I've tried to talk to her but it just goes in one ear and out the other, lol!

12/03/2007 02:51 PM by Richardson TX Realtor Nick Good www.NickGood.com (Keller Williams Realty)


Good for her,  now put the saving in some stocks that you feel comfortable with.  And pretend you spent it and let your money grow. 

 

12/04/2007 02:28 PM by Beatrice Cooper, (Finacial Destination )


No, I can not call your wife.  She would have to want to do this,  But it sounds like she likes to shop.  If I where you I would keep her busy so she would not have time to shop.  Just let me know when she is ready to get rid of her cloth. 

12/04/2007 02:36 PM by Beatrice Cooper, (Finacial Destination )


Good post Beatrice. Unlike mathew my wife does not subscribe to these principals ...I'll have to direct her to this post:)

12/07/2007 02:29 PM by Christopher Ohlsen (Lake City Mortgage)


Sure send her in.  I will do my best to help.  Sometimes it takes another women to help. 

12/09/2007 06:57 PM by Beatrice Cooper, (Finacial Destination )


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